Larry points out an interesting bit of history about this passage here: http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/05/jeffersons_remix_of_augustines.html
~ ~ ~ thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog work / http://creativecommons.org sights / http://flickr.com/fcb sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis status / http://twitter.com/mecredis On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Parker Higgins <[email protected]>wrote: > That's awesome. Perhaps its a result of Jefferson's ridiculous brilliance, > but I've noticed on other occasions that he gets too briefly quoted. In > Boyle's Public Domain book there's a long discussion of what happens in the > Jefferson quote after the bit about using one candle to light another, > that's definitely worth reading. > > I don't have the text handy, and he explains it much better than I could! > > Parker > > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Seth Johnson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> This might not be earthshattering, but I thought it was interesting -- >> note what Jefferson states in the last sentence here, after the >> sentence that's usually cited: >> >> >> "The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the >> very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me >> to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or >> newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to >> prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive >> those papers and be capable of reading them." >> >> -- Thomas Jefferson, 1787 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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